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Lamb-Chops with Potatoes , a Favourite Dish

Lamb chops coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried and served around mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,855 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Lamb-Chops with Potatoes , a Favourite Dish

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Trim the bone from the lamb chops using a chopping knife.

  2. Season the chops with salt and brush them with the beaten egg.

  3. Dip the chops in bread crumbs mixed with minced parsley.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the chops until nicely browned.

  2. Place the mashed potatoes in the center of a serving dish, scoring them neatly.

  3. Arrange the hot chops around the potatoes, leaning each chop against the next.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Parsley + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Lamb + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Lamb + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Provide the main meat, which browns during frying to develop savory flavor.
Egg
Acts as a binding wash that helps the bread crumb coating adhere to the chops.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating that protects the meat during frying.
Mashed potatoes
Add a soft, creamy base that contrasts with the crisp coated chops.

The step that matters

Fry the chops until nicely browned. Frying over sufficient heat browns the breaded coating through the Maillard reaction, giving flavor and color. Too little heat soaks the coating in oil and leaves it pale and greasy, while the coating can separate or burn if the heat is too high.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, egg, bread, potato, butter, cream):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, egg, bread, potato, butter, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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